Technology News by Aritra Sarkhel

Campus Management, the Florida based company which provides software to colleges & universities pointed out that India has been a little slower to adopt most of the modern systems for automating their processes on campuses

Red Hat, the Linux firm which makes open source products for enterprises has partenered with more than 100 colleges and universities in the last one year with the aim to train students in open source skills and certify them in emerging technologies like DevOps, Cloud IT automation among others.

Inspite of the spate of cyber attacks originating from Russia, China and North Korea, cyber security organziation FireEye said that the state of Iran has been involved in a lot of cyber attacks in the last few quarters and India along with Hong Kong will might see lot of activity from Chinese APT groups.

The chief scientist at cyber security firm McAfee, Raj Samani, said enterprises, government bodies and SMBs in India will need to be wary of phishing, spyware and cyber frauds in first few quarters of 2018 and also should be transparent while collecting user data.

Mouthshut.com, the user generated reviews and product discovery platform which pioneered auto rickshaw advertising in the early 2000's has deleted 80,000 fake user profiles and their reviews from their website to reduce damage caused to various brands.

Hitachi Vantara has welcomed General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) and the forthcoming data protection bill in India and stated that such privacy regulations will triple their business opportunities in Europe and India.

Cases like these of revenge porn -- non-consensual sharing of intimate sexual images by former partners -- is on the rise in India, fuelled by the growing spread of social media and the cloak of anonymity it offers.